Tony Orlando

Tony Orlando's mother gave him some crucial advice early in his singing career: "Find a backup career," she told him. "This is not something you can count on forever."

The advice seems amusing, today, given Orlando's 54-year career as the pop superstar behind "Knock Three Times" (1970) and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" (1973), and it seemed irrelevant to Orlando at the time. He'd just scored his first hit record, 1961's "Halfway to Paradise," written by the great Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and his follow-up, "Bless You," rose even higher up the charts.

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